This skill should be used when the user says "visual sketch", "arn visual sketch", "sketch directions", "explore visuals", "visual proposals", "try different looks", "design directions", "sketch the UI", "visual exploration", "compare styles", "show me options", "what could this look like", or wants to generate multiple visual direction proposals as real HTML/CSS running on the scaffolded project's dev server, iteratively selecting and refining until a final visual direction is chosen.

This skill should be used when the user says "use cases", "arn use cases", "write use cases", "define use cases", "Cockburn use cases", "actor goals", "behavioral requirements", "system behavior", "what does the app do", "describe the behavior", "use case document", "document the behavior", "define system behavior", or wants to create structured use case documents that describe the application's behavior from actor perspectives, producing a use-cases/ directory with individual Cockburn fully-dressed use case files and a README index.

This skill should be used when the user says "prfaq", "pr faq", "pr/faq", "press release stress test", "stress prfaq", "amazon pr faq method", "test the pitch with a pr/faq", "validate concept through pr/faq", "critique press release", "pr faq stress test", "will this marketing story hold up", or wants to stress-test a product concept by drafting a compelling press release and FAQ, then adversarially critiquing it to find where the concept cracks under scrutiny. Produces a PR/FAQ report with the full draft, adversarial questions, crack point analysis, and recommended concept updates.

This skill should be used when the user says "pre-mortem", "premortem", "risk analysis", "stress premortem", "failure analysis", "what could go wrong", "pre mortem", "investigate failure", "failure modes", or wants to stress-test a product concept by applying Gary Klein's pre-mortem methodology to identify hypothetical failure root causes, early warning signals, and mitigation strategies. Produces a pre-mortem report with 3 root causes across distinct failure dimensions and recommended concept updates.

This skill should be used when the user says "stress interview", "synthetic interview", "user interview stress test", "interview my personas", "test with synthetic users", "persona interview", "simulate user interviews", "run user interviews", or wants to stress-test a product concept by conducting structured interviews with synthetic personas through three adversarial lenses (Pragmatist, Skeptic, Power User). Produces an interview report with per-persona findings, synthesized themes, and recommended concept updates.

This skill should be used when the user says "competitive analysis", "gap analysis", "competitive gap", "stress competitive", "compare competitors", "feature comparison", "competitive stress test", "market comparison", "competitor analysis", or wants to stress-test a product concept by conducting deep competitive gap analysis with feature comparison, gap identification, and positioning assessment. Produces a competitive report with a feature matrix, per-competitor analysis, and recommended concept updates.

This skill should be used when the user says "static prototype", "arn static prototype", "visual validation", "pixel perfect", "component showcase", "static screens", "build a static prototype", "create a component showcase", "visual review", "validate the visuals", "check the design", "validate components", "review the design visuals", or wants to create a static component showcase and validate it through iterative expert review cycles with per-criterion scoring, an independent judge verdict, and versioned output.

This skill should be used when the user says "scaffold", "arn scaffold", "set up the project", "create project", "initialize project", "bootstrap project", "create the skeleton", "install dependencies", "configure the project", or wants to create a working project skeleton from architecture decisions with installed dependencies, configured build tools, and a UI toolkit ready for development.

This skill should be used when the user says "spark report", "report spark issue", "spark broke", "arn-spark-report", "greenfield issue", "report greenfield problem", "report spark problem", "diagnose spark", "spark doctor", "spark bug", "spark not working", or wants to report a problem with an Arness Spark workflow skill. Invokes the arn-spark-doctor agent to diagnose the issue, then files a GitHub issue on the Arness plugin repository. Do NOT use this for filing issues on the user's own project — use /arn-code-create-issue for that.

This skill should be used when the user says "naming", "brand name", "name my product", "find a name", "product naming", "brand naming", "what should I call it", "name ideas", "pick a name", "naming session", "help me name this", "brainstorm names", "come up with a name", "arn spark naming", "arn-spark-naming", or wants to find a brand name for their product through strategic analysis, creative generation, qualitative scoring, and due diligence including domain availability and trademark screening.

Optional customization tool for greenfield projects. This skill should be used when the user says "greenfield init", "arn spark init", "initialize greenfield", "setup greenfield", "greenfield setup", "start greenfield", "configure greenfield", "set up greenfield", "init greenfield", "greenfield configuration", "review greenfield config", "customize greenfield config", "greenfield settings", "Figma setup", "Canva setup", "add Figma", "add Canva", "design tool setup", or wants to customize Arness Spark configuration, add design tool integrations (Figma, Canva), or review current greenfield settings. Arness Spark auto-configures with sensible defaults on first skill invocation — this init is optional. Design tool integration (Figma/Canva) remains available only through this skill.

This skill should be used when the user says "feature extract", "arn feature extract", "extract features", "feature backlog", "create backlog", "list features", "what features do we need", "prioritize features", "feature list", "build the backlog", "what should we build", "upload features", "feature tracker", or wants to extract a structured, prioritized feature list with journey steps, validated components, use case context, and UI behavior details from all project artifacts, producing a feature backlog document with a Feature Tracker that bridges into arn-code-feature-spec and optionally uploads features to the issue tracker.

This skill should be used when the user says "concept review", "review concept", "update product concept", "synthesize stress tests", "stress test review", "apply stress test findings", "review stress test results", "concept update", "merge stress test recommendations", or wants to synthesize findings from completed stress tests into a reviewed and updated product concept document. Scans for stress test reports, consolidates recommendations, resolves conflicts using product pillars, presents the full changeset for user approval, and produces an updated product-concept.md alongside a concept-review-report.md.

This skill should be used when the user says "arch vision", "architecture vision", "arn arch vision", "define the architecture", "tech stack", "what technology should I use", "design the system", "system architecture", "how should I build this", "technology choices", "choose technologies", "pick a tech stack", or wants to explore technology options and define the high-level architecture for a greenfield project. Takes a product concept as input and produces an architecture-vision.md document capturing the technology stack, system design, protocols, packaging strategy, and known risks.

This skill should be used when the user says "triage infra request", "infra triage", "arn infra triage", "process infra issue", "handle infra request", "infrastructure request", "triage infrastructure", "analyze infra issue", "infra request analysis", "process infrastructure request", or wants to process an incoming infrastructure request issue created by Arness Core or manually, analyze its infrastructure implications, and produce a structured implications brief.

This skill should be used when the user says "infra report", "report infra issue", "infra broke", "arn-infra-report", "infrastructure issue", "report deployment problem", "report infrastructure problem", "diagnose infra", "infra doctor", or wants to report a problem with an Arness Infra workflow skill. Invokes the arn-infra-doctor agent to diagnose the issue, then files a GitHub issue on the Arness plugin repository. Do NOT use this for filing issues on the user's own project — use /arn-code-create-issue for that.

This skill should be used when the user says "migrate infrastructure", "arn infra migrate", "infra migrate", "move to AWS", "move to GCP", "move to Azure", "switch providers", "change cloud provider", "graduate from PaaS", "move from heroku", "move from fly.io", "consolidate providers", "infrastructure migration", "provider migration", "partial migration", "move database", "move services", "arn-infra-migrate", "infrastructure move", "cloud migration", or wants to migrate infrastructure between providers, graduate from PaaS to IaC, consolidate providers, or partially move specific services.

This skill should be used when the user says "infra help", "arn infra help", "where am I in the pipeline", "what's next for infra", "infra status", "pipeline status", "infra pipeline", "arn-infra-help", "show infra pipeline", "what step am I on for infra", "infra workflow", "infrastructure status", "show infrastructure pipeline", or wants to see their current position in the Arness Infra workflow and get guidance on the next step. This skill detects whether the user is in Quick (interactive) mode or Full Pipeline mode and renders an ASCII diagram with the active stage marked.

This skill should be used when the user says "execute infra change", "run infra plan", "apply infrastructure change", "execute change", "arn infra execute", "deploy infra plan", "execute infrastructure plan", "run infrastructure change", "apply infra plan", "infra execute", "arn-infra-execute-change", or wants to orchestrate the phased execution of a structured infrastructure change plan, invoking agents for IaC generation, security gates, cost gates, deployment, verification, and review.

This skill should be used when the user says "manage environments", "arn infra env", "infra env", "environment setup", "configure environments", "set up staging", "set up production", "environment management", "create environment", "environment promotion", "promote to staging", "promote to production", "environment isolation", "configure dev staging prod", "environment-specific config", "tfvars per environment", "arn-infra-env", or wants to configure, create, or manage infrastructure environments (dev/staging/production) with isolation strategies, variable overrides, and promotion rules.